A Retrospective : US Harper's Bazaar under Nancy White (1958-1971)

[aracic]

Harper's Bazaar September 1958



Photographs by Richard Avedon;
Featuring Dovima, Betsy Pickering and other unidentified models.



Photographs by Gleb Derujinsky;
Featuring Carmen Dell'Orefice and unidentified model.



Photographs by Saul Leiter;
Featuring Carmen Dell'Orefice.



Photographs by Dan Wynn;
Featuring Evelyn Tripp and other unidentified models.



Photographs by Ben Somoroff.



Photographs by Ben Rose;
Featuring unidentified model.



Photographs by Francesco Scavullo;
Featuring Dolores Hawkins Phelps and other unidentified models.



Photographs by Louis Faurer;
Featuring Anne St. Marie.


Harper's Bazaar Archive

 

[justaguy]

Bazaar was seriously more stylish and glamorous than Vogue during this period!

 

[Jacek]

Bazaar was seriously more stylish and glamorous than Vogue during this period!

Seriously!

 

[Bernie Flood]

It's criminal that the full April 1965 issue isn't even digitized in their archives. Pathetic lmao.

I Had read this issue before. Physical copy...I'm in awe

 

[Bernie Flood]

Bazaar was seriously more stylish and glamorous than Vogue during this period!

While the 60s Harper's Bazaar may lack the pizzazz and larger-than-life power of DV's Vogue, Nancy White's balances fantasy and intellectualism with thought provoking contents.
CHANGE MY MIND

 

[Bernie Flood]

Seriously!

While both Nan Kempner and Gloria Guinness were Harper's Bazaar editors in the 1960s, Kempner's role as Nancy White's fashion features editor was more focused. It's intriguing to wonder if she was considered as a potential replacement for White in the 1970s.

 

[Bernie Flood]

A couple of weeks ago I posted a Vogue cover from 1971, so I thought I’d better give the competition a little boost as well. In the late 60s and the 70s Vogue covers were, for the most part, head shots, but the covers at Bazaar were often action shots. This cover from June, 1972 is a good example of a typical early 70s Bazaar cover, with the model leaping down a stretch of beach. Until early 1972, the editor at Bazaar was Nancy White. White was pretty much the opposite of Vogue‘s Diana Vreeland, and in the late 1950s both women were up for the editorship of Bazaar. Vreeland had been working there some time as fashion editor, and the new-comer White had been most recently at Good Housekeeping. But White had an advantage, as she was out-going editor Carmel Snow’s niece. White got the job, Vreeland left Bazaar for Vogue, and the rest is history. Interestingly, while Vreeland was replaced at Vogue for being too flamboyant, White was replaced at Bazaar a short time later for being too old-fashioned. Her replacement was James Brady from Women’s Wear Daily, who quickly made the magazine more political in nature, with less emphasis on fashion. He lasted fourteen months before he was fired.

 

[caioherrero]

When Polly started at Bazaar?